Everything starts from Menghualu

Chapter 410 Mother-son Conversation and Xue Ning's Shock
"Hey, hey, hey, there's something going on. Zhiyi, please sit down first. Sit down and I'll tell you slowly. This is what happened. I originally thought that you would have objections to this marriage."

"I wanted to find you to persuade you, but now it seems that it is unnecessary." Shen Lang said
"Why not? Of course I have to. I haven't told you yet, my brother. If you say so, then grant me the marriage. I have never met him before. How can you?" Shen Zhiyi said

"Alright, alright. I know this is not right for you, but you know that he just returned from a victory and made this request in front of all the civil and military officials. It is always difficult for me to refuse."

"Look, isn't it good now? Isn't he very much to your liking?" Shen Lang said
"Royal brother, you are still talking about it. In order to marry me, he even gave up his hereditary title. I think you, Royal brother, just can't bear to give up that hereditary title, humph." Shen Zhiyi said

"Zhiyi, you are really ridiculous. How can you say such a thing casually? Yes, I did use your marriage to change the hereditary title."

"But the matter here is very complicated and cannot be explained in just a few words, so please stop messing around and listen to me."

"The Yan family has too much influence in the army right now. Although they still seem loyal, it's not uncommon for them to wear yellow robes."

"So I have high hopes for Cao Cheng. I hope he can form a check and balance with the Yan family, but I am also worried that he will become another Yan family."

"Now you can marry him, so that he can be considered a member of the royal family. You must get along well with him and don't let him go astray." Shen Lang said in a deep voice.
"Oh. I understand, brother. Don't worry, I know what to do. But what about mother? It seems that she won't give in easily." Shen Zhiyi said

"Mother, don't worry. I will talk to you. Just go back and wait for your marriage." Shen Lang said
"Royal brother, can I, can I learn something before I get married? You also know that Shu'er has been good in all aspects since she was a child. After I get married, I..." Shen Zhiyi hesitated and said

"Well, I haven't thought about this, but that's fine. Let me order you to choose a few study companions. I'll let Master Xie and the others teach you." Shen Lang said
"Really? Royal brother, you are so kind. It's settled then. Don't regret it, Royal brother. I'll take my leave first. Mother, don't forget it." Shen Zhiyi said and ran away.

Shen Lang looked at her leaving back, smiled dotingly, and then suddenly said, "Go tell the Queen Mother that I will go to pay my respects to her later."

After hearing this, Wang Xinyi bowed and left the imperial study.

At this time, the Queen Mother was at full fire and kept scolding Xue Yuan.

"Look at you, it's all your fault. You chose to raise an unlucky person when everything was fine. Now, he is so bold that he wants to marry my daughter. Your Majesty also wants to marry her, and he actually agreed?"

"That brat is so bold and presumptuous that he actually dared to tell Zhiyi about his life experience. I don't care. Anyway, I don't agree to this marriage. Go find a way to make him cancel the engagement!" the Queen Mother said angrily.

"Empress Dowager, this, this is not a good idea, right? The imperial decree has already been issued. If we cancel the engagement now, it would be disobeying the imperial decree; even our Xue family would be implicated." Xue Yuandao
"You, are you threatening me? I tell you, if it's anything else, I can tolerate you today, but this one, I can't tolerate you!" The Queen Mother was furious.
Xue Yuan looked embarrassed after hearing this, but he didn't take it seriously at all. When the Queen Mother saw that he was silent, she became even angrier. Just when she was about to say something, Huang Renli came in.

"Your Majesty, His Majesty sent someone to say that he is coming to pay his respects to you." Huang Renli said

"What? His Majesty is coming over? Go and tell him to come down." The Queen Mother said
After Huang Renli heard this, he naturally bowed and then left. After he left, the Queen Mother said, "You should go back too. Remember what I said."

After hearing this, Xue Yuan naturally stood up and turned to leave. The Queen Mother looked at his departing back and felt a deep sense of powerlessness in her heart.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you." Shen Lang bowed.
"Alright, alright, Your Majesty, you are not in good health, so forget about these. Come and sit down. It just so happens that the four families also have something to discuss with you." The Queen Mother said with a smile

After hearing this, Shen Lang slowly sat over, knowing very well what his mother was going to say.

"My son, can you please not let your sister marry Cao Cheng?" the Queen Mother asked directly
"Mother, why is this happening? Normally, this marriage is a good thing, why don't you agree? I thought Zhiyi was lying to me before, but I didn't expect it to be true."

"Mother, can you tell me why you are against it? After all, you know that the imperial decree to grant marriage has been issued. If you regret it now, what will happen?" Shen Lang asked

"My son, actually, well, this matter can't be concealed for long anyway, so I'll tell you, actually, actually this Cao Cheng is one of the three hundred children back then." The Queen Mother said directly
"What? This is impossible? Didn't they say they were all dead? Did I check the number of bodies back then? Could it be that I missed the memorial I still remember?" Shen Lang said in surprise

"It wasn't that he was missed. The statistics back then were not missed. There were indeed 300 people, and they were indeed all buried, but he, he crawled out by himself." The Queen Mother said with a look of fear on her face.

"What? Climbed out by itself? Climbed out? That's not right. Wasn't the coffin sealed back then? How could it crawl out? Mother, this is too unbelievable, isn't it?" Shen Lang said in disbelief.
"My son, I know you don't believe it. Not to mention you, even I didn't believe it when I first found out. But this is true. He crawled out by himself."

"No one knows how he crawled out. When he was found, your uncle, who was in charge of guarding the palace at the time, was informed."

"When your uncle saw him, he took his identity into consideration, so he concealed the matter and adopted him as his adopted son. Later, as the child grew up, your uncle could no longer hide it, so he told me."

"When I heard the news, I immediately tried to persuade your uncle, because he was an ominous person. But at that time, no matter how I persuaded him, he would not listen." The Queen Mother shook her head.
After hearing this, Shen Lang was silent for a while. After all, this kind of thing was indeed too unbelievable, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Time passed slowly. After an unknown amount of time, Shen Lang spoke first.

"Mother, I have said that you are worried about what happened back then, but to be honest, we were also responsible for what happened back then. I guess my uncle also had this in mind at the time."

"In fact, in my opinion, Cao Cheng's identity is not a bad thing for us. On the contrary, I think we can make his identity public."

"This way, the people of the world can see that our royal family has made some compensation for what happened back then. We have married a princess to him."

"Mother, what will people in the world think of us if this happens?" Shen Lang asked
"What? Your Majesty, you, you actually want to do that? No, this is absolutely not possible. We have been here for so many years, and it took us so long to suppress that matter."

"You actually want to bring up the past now? No, absolutely not. I won't agree. Zhiyi can marry him. But his identity must not be revealed!" The Queen Mother said excitedly.

"I understand, mother. If there is nothing else, I will take my leave." Shen Lang nodded, then stood up and left. The queen mother looked at her son's back as he left, and she couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Her son was really born to be an emperor.

He could think of taking advantage of just such a thing, but this kind of thing is absolutely not feasible, after all, there were too many tricks in the events back then.

Once some people find out, it will have the opposite effect. It's a pity for Zhiyi, the girl, who has to marry such an unlucky person.

What she didn't know was that Shen Lang had already made up his mind at this time. After Cao Cheng and Zhiyi were officially married, he would release the news.

After all, the incident of the three hundred loyal souls had a great impact on the royal family, especially for the emperor like him. He would never be able to get over the incident of Schrodinger.

Not to mention other people, even he himself couldn't get over it, so naturally he had to do this. It was not only an explanation to the world, but also to himself.

At this time, Shen Zhiyi had no idea about her royal brother's plan. She was happily preparing things and planning to study hard.

At this time, in the private room on the third floor of Cengxiao Building, Jiang Xuening, who was dressed as a man, woke up from her coma. When she felt a man beside her, she subconsciously said, "How dare you!"

This voice directly woke up the two men who were still sleeping. These two men were Yan Lin and Shen Jie. When Yan Lin heard Jiang Xuening's voice, he directly pointed his sword at Shen Jie.

"Ningning, what's wrong with you? What did he do to you?" Yan Lin said
After hearing this, Jiang Xue Ning looked around and said, "No, nothing, nothing. I just woke up and felt a little nervous. Yan Lin, put down your sword."

"Your Highness, I just woke up and was a little nervous for a moment. I hope Your Highness will forgive me. I have something else to do at home, so I'll leave first. I will come to apologize another day." After Jiang Xue Ning finished speaking, she turned around and left.

Yan Lin called out to him several times behind him but no one paid any attention. Yan Lin was somewhat depressed, but Xue Ning didn't care about Yan Lin's little thoughts at this moment.

At this moment, she was walking on the street, and various memories from the past kept emerging in her mind. It was all so real that she couldn't tell whether it was true or false for a moment.

I finally made it home, stumbling across everything, and locked myself in the room, then began to fall into deep guilt.

Thinking of what happened before, she really wanted to slap herself hard a few times.

It was unknown how long it had passed before she came to her senses and made up her mind that she must change those regrets and be a good person in this life.

But what happened next completely stunned her.

"Lian'er, what did you say? Cao Cheng? Who is this Cao Cheng?" Jiang Xuening asked

"Second Miss, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me. Lord Cao is the adopted son of Duke Dingguo, and His Majesty has just conferred him the title of Marquis Dingyuan. Moreover, he is also the current emperor's consort." Lian'er said
"What? You said he is the adopted son of Duke Dingguo? And a marquis? And he is going to marry Princess Leyang? How is this possible? This is impossible!" Jiang Xuening said in disbelief.
"Second Miss, this is all true. Didn't you say a few days ago that Prince Yan complained to you about him? How come you forgot about it so quickly?" Lian'er said
"Yes, I understand. You go out first. I want to be alone for a while." Jiang Xuening said

After hearing this, Lian'er could only walk out slowly, but the worry on her face did not disappear, but became more and more serious.

However, Jiang Xue would rather not know all this at the moment. Even if she knew, she wouldn't care, because something big had happened, and it was a huge thing, which was who Cao Cheng was.

Are the memories in my mind real or am I dreaming? Could it be that all that had never happened and was it all just my imagination?

But shouldn't it be so? The scenes in my memory were so clear, and they were all things I could do. They couldn't be fake.

But what is going on now? How did this Cao Cheng appear? Why didn't this person exist in the previous life? What went wrong?
She kept asking herself this question, but never got an answer.

However, as she had been a queen, she still had some character, so she adjusted herself quickly and began to think about the next strategy.

Although there is one more Cao Cheng now, since he is the adopted son of Duke Dingguo, it seems that the things in his memory may still happen.

After all, in his memory, Duke Dingguo had held the advantage for a long time. Now with Cao Cheng, he just had a little more advantage, and the process might not change much.

As for whether the final result would change, she couldn't think that far ahead now. She just wanted to change Yan Lin's blood crown ceremony.

That was where everything began. It was from that time that I abandoned Yan Lin, snatched Jiang Xuehui's position as queen, and embarked on the road of no return.

If she could change the ending this time, would everything be different? Thinking of this, she couldn't help but be full of fighting spirit again, but she didn't come out, which made Jiang Boyou anxious.

At this time, after hearing about his daughter's abnormal behavior, Jiang Boyou could no longer sit still. He immediately stood up and walked towards his daughter's yard.

When he arrived, he was surprised to find his daughter standing at the door with a smile on her face.

"Father, why do you look like that? Did something happen?" Jiang Xue Ning asked

"How dare you ask me? You locked yourself up as soon as you came back. What happened? Did Yan Lin bully you?" Jiang Boyou asked
(End of this chapter)